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Anthony Farrar-Hockley
General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley & Bar, MC (8 April 1924 – 11 March 2006), affectionately known as '' 'Farrar the Para' '', was a British Army officer and a military historian who distinguished himself in a number of British conflicts. He held a number of senior commands, ending his career as NATO's Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe.
==Personal life==
Anthony Farrar-Hockley was born in Coventry the son of a journalist.〔(''The Telegraph'' ''Obituary:Gen Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley''. 14 March 2006. )〕 He was educated at Exeter School, at the age of 15 he ran away at the start of World War II and enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment, the fact that he was underage was soon discovered and he was discharged and had to wait to be re-enlisted in 1941. He was promoted sergeant while still aged 17 and only 18 when he was commissioned into the 1st Airborne Division in November 1942 and fought in Italy and France. Later he won the MC in 1944 while fighting the communist rebellion in Athens.〔
On 7 July 1945 in St Peter's Church, Ealing,〔Goldman, L. (ed.) 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008', Oxford, 2013〕 he married Margaret B Wells with whom he had three sons (two of whom survive). His first wife died in 1981 and he married Linda Wood in 1983. Following in father's footsteps his elder son Charles Dair Farrar-Hockley also won an MC fighting with the Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War.
During his mid-career Farrar-Hockley was carrying out research and publishing. He established a reputation as an authority on World War I, publishing ''The Somme'' (1964) and ''Death of an Army'' (1968). By way of ''sabbatical'' during his military career he spent time (1968–1970) at Exeter College, Oxford as a Defence Fellow, working on a research project into the social effects of National Service in Britain and publishing two other books. He gained a BLitt at Oxford University.〔〔(''The Times''. ''Obituary: General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley'' )〕
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